Treecycle -- The hippies have spoken!

[ericire12]

http://earth911.com/blog/2008/11/11/treecycle-this-holiday-season/

Treecycle This Holiday Season

Method #1: Chipping

Most community recycling programs rely on chipping, as this method tends to be simple, cost-efficient and the chips can be used in a variety of ways. For example, raw chips can be used as:

    * Landscaping and path cover for parks, school campuses and private residences
    * Ground cover in orchards and Christmas tree farms
    * Weed control around the bases of utility poles
    * Cover for playground areas
    * Landfill daily cover
    * Partial composting into mulch

Method #2: Using the Whole Tree

Whole Christmas trees can also be a valuable contribution to environmental programs that restore habitats such as:

    * Dune & Coastal Restoration
    * Rebuilding Wetlands
    * Wildlife Habitats
    * Fishing Spots

By comparison, the only benefit to trashing your tree is that you’ll give a temporary pine fresh smell to a landfill.

To find the nearest Christmas tree recycling program in your area, use Earth911’s recycling location search.

Do these enviro-nut-jobs not understand that it probably does more harm to the earth to take your tree to have it recycled then to not have it recycled? Think of all the fossil fuels that are used and all the carbon that is emitted!

Here is an idea..... do what I did and recycle your tree the way the good Lord intended -- throw it into the woods!

[tt11758]

Mrs. T recycled our tree back into the same box it's been living in for the past 5 years, then tucked it away in the attic to await next Christmas (or until we move, if the damned house ever sells!!)

[Big Frank]

In northern Michigan people use their discarded Christmas trees to mark the path of a 4 mile ice bridge from St. Ignace to Mackinac Island. The ice "highway" usually opens in February and may last anywhere from a few days to a couple of months. When the ice melts the trees fall to the bottom and disappear. They become homes for fish.

[tombogan03884]

Not reusing things is one of the problems of today's "throw away society". For an example Flour and grain bags were the source of much clothing material in the old days.

[Bidah]

I take all the trees I can get my hands on.  We bring them home and throw them in the pen where the goats are.  The love to eat the needles.  Once they are done, we cut them up and burn them in the wood stove, and use the small branches as kindling.

Now that is recycling..

-Bidah

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[runstowin]

Marilyn Monroe was an early tree hugger.
She really knew how to recycle.

[ericire12]

thats a photoshop

[runstowin]

Actually I first saw this photo or another from the same shoot  in a biography of MM back in the eighties.
You can reference this website, 3 photos down on the left side, and there she is all dressed up in a fancy potato sack.

http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Marilyn/marilyn-gallery3.htm

[ericire12]

The B&W one looks more authentic.... I guess the colorized one just threw me off

[Harold Green]

I just got done with a bullet casting session.  You know, turning old bullets picked up off the backstop into new bullets that can be assembled into reloaded ammunition. 

Does bullet-casting count as recycling?  For that matter, does reloading count as recycling?  After all, aren’t we recycling used brass?

Maybe next time I find myself talking with a hippie, I'll mention I'm an avid recycler and hope he asks how I recycle.